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Jo Raphael

Jo Raphael (B.Ed, M.Ed, PhD, SFHEA) is Senior Lecturer in Arts Education (Drama) in the School of Education at Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia. She is actively involved in teaching and researching in schools, community and higher education settings within Australia and internationally. She is Artistic Director of Fusion Theatre, an inclusive community-based theatre company, that provides a welcoming creative space of belonging for artists with disability. 

Jo’s areas of research and publication include applied theatre, drama as pedagogy, inclusive education and teacher education. In her practice she applies drama as a pedagogy for learning across the curriculum including in science, humanities, and sustainability education, working within diverse contexts including cultural institutions such as museums and galleries. Jo has received awards for teaching excellence including an Australian citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning and was made Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy in 2018. 

Jo’s research draws on arts-based and participatory action research methods that are inclusive of participants as co-researchers and collaborative arts-based autoethnography as part of a commitment to developing a community of practice amongst teachers and teacher education colleagues. 

Jo has provided over 20 years of service to Drama Victoria and Drama Australia, peak professional associations for drama educators and was awarded the Council of Professional Teaching Associations of Victoria Outstanding Professional Service Award in 2013. She has held several roles with these organisations including leading, co-ordinating and contributing to national projects, offering professional learning for drama teachers, and as editor of the Australian Drama Education Magazine. She is a Life Member of Drama Victoria and is currently President of Drama Australia.

乔·拉斐尔（教育学学士、教育学硕士、哲学博士、高级教育学院院士）是澳大利亚墨尔本迪肯大学教育学院艺术教育（戏剧）的资深讲师。她积极参与澳大利亚国内及国际的学校、社区和高等教育机构的教学与科研工作。她还是一家以社区为基础的包容性剧院公司——融合剧院的艺术总监，为残疾艺术家提供了一个温馨的创作空间。

 

乔的研究和出版领域包括应用戏剧、戏剧教学法、全纳教育和教师教育。在实践中，她将戏剧作为一种教学法，应用于科学、人文和可持续性教育等各个学科领域，并积极在博物馆和画廊等文化机构等不同背景下开展工作。乔获得了优秀教学奖，其中包括澳大利亚学生学习成果杰出贡献奖，并在2018年被授予高等教育学院资深研究员称号。

 

乔的研究采用了以艺术为基础和参与式的行动研究方法，这些方法包容了作为共同研究者的参与者，并以合作艺术为基础的自我民族志作为对教师和教师教育同事之间发展实践社区承诺的一部分。

 

乔为澳大利亚维多利亚州戏剧和澳大利亚戏剧专业协会服务了20多年，这些协会是戏剧教育工作者的专业顶峰协会。她在这些组织中担任了多个职务，包括领导、协调和贡献国家项目，为戏剧教师提供专业学习机会，并担任澳大利亚戏剧教育杂志的编辑。她是维多利亚州戏剧终身会员，目前担任澳大利亚戏剧协会主席。

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Time to Act:  harnessing drama and theatre in education for planetary wellbeing
Working Title
行动起来：运用戏剧和戏剧教育促进全球福祉

We live in uncertain times when the planet is facing unprecedented challenges. It is time to act, to attend to ideas for planetary wellbeing- not just to find harmony for humanity, but to live in harmony with the wider planetary ecosystem that our existence relies on.

There are opportunities for harnessing drama and theatre for building connections between people and ideas, and for critically examining the times to understand what is needed now. Drama and theatre provide opportunities for participants to creatively collaborate, and to collectively imagine alternative futures. A drama process for collaborative futures thinking, or as an active verb, ‘futuring’, can be productive for finding solutions, as well as having psychological benefits for wellbeing.

Drama and theatre also allow for the examination and understanding of complex socio-environmental issues from multiple perspectives, including from a more-than-human perspective. If we are to solve these complex issues, we need to understand them from all perspectives. A drama approach, involving taking on roles, and affective learning, leads to empathic understandings and an attitude of caring necessary for taking action towards environmental justice.

As drama educators, we need to harness our art form of drama to respond to planetary wellbeing within many diverse education contexts. Drama education projects will be shared to illustrate these ideas in practice. Possibly including:

  • Time to Act- a project that brings teachers together to develop ideas for drama approaches to sustainability and climate change education for students from early years through to secondary and tertiary. (Drama Victoria and Deakin University)

  • Museum of the Future - A process of drama for ‘futuring’ will be described, allowing participants to imagine alternative futures and take the steps that might be necessary to realise them. (Deakin University)

  • The Weathering Project – A community theatre project with people with diverse abilities based on resilience in uncertain times. (Fusion Theatre)

The keynote will draw on contemporary theories of the arts and futuring, eco-pedagogy (Misiazek 2023), as well as earlier philosophers including ideas on the power of the arts (drama) for releasing the imagination- moving beyond the ‘what is’ to the ‘what might be’ (Greene, 2000). 

This keynote will open up conversations about drama and theatre education and offer new ways for thinking and teaching about the changing times in which we are living and ideas for working creatively towards hopeful futures.

主题演讲初步构想：

我们生活在不确定的时代，地球正面临着前所未有的挑战。是时候行动起来，关注关于地球福祉的理念——不仅仅是寻求人类和谐，更是要与我们所依赖的更广泛的地球生态系统和谐共处。

 

运用戏剧和剧场建立人与这一理念之间的联系，批判性地审视当前时代，以了解现在需要什么。戏剧和剧场为参与者提供了创造性合作，并共同构想未来更多可能性的机会。在戏剧运作的过程中展开对未来的思考，或是理解为一种行为动词“未来规划 (futuring)”，这对找到问题解决方案，及收获幸福的心理效应都非常有益。

 

戏剧和剧场还允许从多个角度（包括超越人类的角度）审视和理解复杂的社会环境问题。如果我们要解决这些复杂的问题，我们需要从所有角度理解它们。戏剧方法涉及扮演角色和情感学习，产生共情的理解和对于采取行动推动环境正义所必需的关爱态度。

 

作为戏剧教育者，我们需要借助我们的艺术形式——戏剧，以响应各种多样的教育背景中的地球福祉。在演讲中分享、展示的戏剧教育项目，都展现了这些理念在实践中的应用，可能包括：

  • "行动起来"—— 一个将教师聚集在一起，为从幼儿到中小学和高等教育的学生开发可持续性和气候变化教育的戏剧方法的项目（澳大利亚维多利亚戏剧协会和迪肯大学）

  • "未来博物馆"—— 将描述一种用于“未来规划”的戏剧过程，让参与者想象未来的可能性并采取相关必要的的步骤去实现它们（迪肯大学）

  • "气象项目"—— 一个基于不确定时期的社区戏剧项目，与具有各种才能的人共同探“抗逆力”（融合剧院）

 

主题演讲将借鉴当代艺术和未来规划的理论，生态教育学（Misiazek 2023），以及早期哲学家的思想，包括关于艺术（戏剧）释放想象力的力量的思想，超越“现实是什么”而达到“可能是什么”（Greene，2000）。

 

这个主题演讲将展开关于戏剧和剧场教育的讨论，并提供新的思考方式和教学方式，以应对我们生活的时代的变化，并为创造充满希望的未来提供新思路。

Congress themes addressed
 

1.Sharing Global Drama Education Experience and practice

2.Exploring emerging possibilities and scenarios for drama education

3.Widening drama education conversations

The keynote will also respond to the overall theme of: A Harmonious World —  Constructing a harmonious Cultural, Artistic, and Spiritual Home for Humanity through Drama and Theatre.

It is focussed on a sustaining a home for humanity to help achieve a more harmonious future.

  1. 分享全球戏剧教育经验与实践

  2. 探索戏剧教育的新可能性和应用场景

  3. 拓宽戏剧教育的交流与对话

 

主题演讲还将回应总体主题：“天下大同——通过戏剧和剧场构建人类的和谐文化、艺术和精神家园。”该主题专注于为人类提供一个持久的家园，以帮助实现更加和谐的未来。

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